Wow! Excellent drawings, excellent song, excellent organisation! Awesome!

10 months ago, I submitted a document to the settings team. Its title was "Proposals on how to improve the rogue atmosphere in Planeshift" and contained several detailed proposals for the PS team, including the cloaking one. The authors are Aiwendil, Elvi, Eurac, Garris, Kaisa, Lhaa, Lokter, Morla, Nedoko, Raekh, Semutara and myself. Taken from this document:

“Real” cloaking
People should be able to hide names and guild tags when at camp banished. Another idea would be a rogue's cloak, which you would obtain from a long chain of quests only for the "bad guys". If you equip the cloak on the back slot of your char, the model becomes a rogue model. No name or guild tag, but a green “Rogue” tag would tell other players that this is someone in disguise. The cloak should be editable, so that the standard player's description is replaced with the text written in the cloak. The default (and unchangeable) content would be 'A $racename in disguise' while a cloak name (unique) must be added (to enable identification of the player in main chat tab). If this is too complicated, a standard description would be an easy solution.
It might also be a good idea to make a char in a rogue cloak attackable by default. This might also be restricted to camp banished. Progression points and/or a loot of some tria might motivate an attack on a player rogue. The cloak should also only work in non-city maps.
A cloaked rogue would be able to attack (or maybe pickpocket). However, the victim would get warned with a message like "You notice a cloaked shadow appears behind you", then a timer would count down, giving the victim time to flee. The countdown time could be dependent on the skills „Hide in Shadows“ and „Pickpocketing“.

Pros:
- players could contribute to the bad reputation of rogues
- rogues would become more difficult to find and kill

Cons:
- OOC attacks
- abuse of anonymity

Happy birthday, Kaisa.
I hope and wish you that you stay as you are   

Impressive! 

kiou, I do not get you. During guild war, you just attack everyone in sight, if you can attack them, they are the enemy

This situation has happened to me before several times:
A "new" player asks me if I would help him, teach him how to roleplay, or invite him to my guild. The player tells me he is new to the game. I waste huge amounts of time with explaining and teaching. In the end I find out that the player is someone who has played PS for a along time already.

This is annoying and disappointing.

It may be good if someone does not know about who the player behind a char is. Sometimes it even helps if you do not know the other players chars/alts. It can help you to judge the char and player without being biased. But please: Do not waste other players' time by making them tell you about things you already know just for the sake of giving the impression that you are a noob.

If you insist on not giving away who you are (or who your other chars are), I recommend that you do one of the following.

1) Simply say that you have other chars and know how to play, but that you do not want to tell about them because you want to keep the RP without bias/influence. I did this myself sometimes and the other players understood that. If someone does not respect this, they are not worth playing with, because they obviously have other goals than enjoying the game as it is meant to be.
2) You lie that you did not play PS before, but you played other MMOs, RPGs, etc. You can also add that you read the forums and already know a lot of things because of that.
3) You lie that you played PS a long time ago, but you forgot a lot about it. You did not forget how to roleplay, but you do not know the players/chars. This at least prevents other players from wasting their time by teaching roleplaying.

So please:
Do not waste other players' time by playing the noob!
If necessary lie, but do this in a way which does not waste time (yours and others).

Thank you.

I doubt that the roleplayers will become more tolerant because of this discussion. I also doubt that PLers will try to stick closer to the settings because of this discussion. The only thing that might change something is intervention from above!
*Orgonwukh looks at the crystal sky and wonders about what is going to happen*